G Force
Review
by Anthony Morris
It is hard work thinking up movie ideas all day, so
you can hardly blame the creators of G Force
for basically giving up after they got to "it's an action movie - but
with guinea pigs".
Let’s be honest - even if you are a five year old, you have pretty much
seen everything here before... Car chases, giant robots, sneaking into
the bad guy's base, the action team that has to go rogue to get the job
done.
And that's without getting into plot specifics (lets just say
transforming robots turn out to be involved) because even the shock
twists here are fairly easy to see coming.
But all that doesn't really matter, as whatever the action film cliche G Force drags out
to wave around might turn out to be, it can always say with pride
"you've never seen guinea pigs do it".
Which is true, but doesn't automatically mean that seeing a bunch of
guinea pigs (voiced by Sam Rockwell, Tracey Morgan and Penelope Cruz)
and one mole (Nicolas Cage) uncover an evil plot back by a sinister
consumer goods conglomerate (run by Bill Nighy) only to then be kicked
out of the FBI (by Will Arnett no less) and handed over to a pet store
to be sold to various annoying and / or deadly children (don't worry -
they bust out, team up, and take on the bad guys) is edge-of-your-seat
exciting.
There are plenty of action sequences here and they are mostly done well
(without being too scary for the kids), while the dialogue is the kind
of slick that lets you ignore the fact that most of the jokes don’t
really work.
So the whole film comes down to a titanic struggle between a fairly
stale action movie plot and the fact that computer effects now allow a
collection of cute guinea pigs to run around fighting evil in a
completely convincing fashion.
G Force
does have its moments, but unless you really, really love guinea pigs –
and while these guys are cute “lovable” doesn’t really seem to fit - an
action movie with humans actually doing the stunts might better suit
your needs.
3
out
of 5
G Force
Australian release: 17th
September,
2009
Official
Site: G Force
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey
Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz
Director: Marc Webb
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